Community people: Blackstone ConstructionTHE COURIER / Submitted Blackstone Construction recently presented $6,000 for the training and healthy living program for the RussVegas Foot Races Foundation. The RussVegas Half Marathon was held April 22 in downtown Russellville.

Community people: Dwight Green TeamDwight Elementary School Science Specialist Shanna Couser recently took her fourth grade green team on a field trip to the Recycling Center in Clarksville. Following their tour of the facility, they worked to clean up a local park before having some play time. THE COURIER / Submitted

Carruth elected to Russellville City CouncilThe wife of the late former alderman and mayor will take his place and serve the residents of Ward 1 on the Russellville City Council. Phyllis Carruth won Tuesday night’s special election runoff for the Ward 1, Position 1 seat on the council against challenger Andy Barrett. Unofficial results from the Pope County Election Commission and Clerk’s Office indicate that Carruth received 364 votes (66 percent) compared to 188 (34 percent) for Barret...

Community people: Arkansas Symphonic Wind EnsembleTHE COURIER / Submitted The Arkansas Tech University Symphonic Wind Ensemble will conclude its 2016-17 performance schedule by offering a program titled "Reflections" at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Witherspoon Auditorium. Admission will be free and open to the public. Dr. Daniel A. Belongia, director of bands and associate professor of music, will conduct the ensemble as it performs pieces by David Maslanka, Samuel Barber and Karel Husa. The concert w...

About 1,700 lose power in western RussellvilleA tree knocked out a power line and caused about 1,700 Entergy customers in a portion of western Russellville to go without power Thursday afternoon. Entergy spokesman Mike Duncan said a tree fell across a power line before 1:30 p.m. in the 1600 block of West Main Street. The majority of the area had power restored Thursday afternoon. Duncan also gave an update on severe thunderstorms that traveled through Pope and Yell counties on Wednesday. ...

Community people: Community Christian SchoolTHE COURIER / Submitted Students and staff at Community Christian School in Russellville had the opportunity to meet the Survival Flight emergency helicopter crew, followed by a tour of the helicopter after it landed in the school parking lot.

#throwbackthursdayReprinted from a 1974 edition of the Courier-Democrat. Winners of a poster contest at Crawford Elementary School to promote the schools annual fund raising chicken and dressing dinner and fun night Friday, Oct. 18, are (from left) Ken Latham, Greg Austin and David Dodd, fifth grade students of Mrs. William Sweeney. Six posters were entered by each of the school's three fifth grade classes. Price of meal is 75 cents for children and $1.50 for a...

Community people: Blaine RogersTHE COURIER / Submitted Blaine Rogers, lead pastor with Connect Church, recently spoke to the Russellville Kiwanis Club about his church's ministries and community involvement.

Watch! Russellville High School Quiz Bowl on AETNTHE COURIER / Submitted The Russellville High School Quiz Bowl team will head to the 6A Quiz Bowl State Championship for the second time. The team will play against Benton at 11 a.m. on Saturday The game will be broadcast live on AETN and can be streamed live at http://www.aetn.org/programs/quizbowl.

Community people: Jim Davidson and Chris OlsonTHE COURIER / Submitted Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center C.E.O. Jim Davidson (right) recently presented Chris Olson, race director, with a $3,500 check for the training and healthy living program for the RussVegas Foot Races Foundation. Events will begin Friday with a festival in downtown Russellville from 6-10 p.m. featuring a kid's mile and 5K Glow Run and other family-friendly attractions. The main race will begin Saturday morning. For ...

#throwbackthursdayReprinted from a 1972 edition of the Courier-Democrat Warming up for All-State Choir tryouts at Russellville High School over the weekend were RHS students (from left) David Harris, Jim Bob Humphrey, Carolyn Mars, Roy Kemp, Cathy Baker, Mark Denniston, Nancy Pack and Sheree Hines (seated at piano). They were among 500 qualifying at regional auditions for the statewide tryouts.

Community people: Ken Harper, Charlie Cravens and Bob SykesTHE COURIER / Submitted Pope County Veteran Services Officer Ken Harper (center) recently spoke about services his office provides such as filing claims with the Veterans Administration and obtaining copies of lost discharge papers and medal replacements for military veterans. His office is located at 107 West B St. in Russellville. Harper is pictured with Kiwanians Charlie Cravens and Bob Sykes.

Ward trial set for July in Conway CountyDANVILLE — A special judge ruled Tuesday in Yell County Circuit Court that the trial of the former EMS director and secretary will be moved to Morrilton in Conway County. Tom Tatum II, prosecuting attorney for the 15th Judicial District, said Tuesday that Special Judge Brad Karren, Division II judge for the 19th Circuit West, ruled to remove the trial from Yell County and to schedule it in Conway County, after attorneys for both sides agreed t...